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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1892. VOLUME XXVEL?NO. 20. Liver Complaint Jaundice, sick headache, vertigo, biliousness, and dyspepsia, cured by "In bilious attacks, and for sic): headashe, to which I am subject, I Und no medicine so effective as Ayer's Pills."?Chai. Gaaelnl, Smith's Banco, Sonoma Co., CaL "I was troubled with sick headache for ten years, but was finally cured by uaing Ayer's Pills.?-P. J. Haag, Ssott, "Wls. Ayer's Cathartic Pills Prepared by Dr. J.C.Ajer?: Co., Lowell, Hub. Every DOSO Effective. m P. GOSSETT k a, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BOOTS AND SB:0ES, Axe offering some of THE BIGGEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED Iff AHDER80K. .JLHEY are selling soma liaea of Boots and Shoes by t?m single paw for less raonsy than the same goof's can be bought again at by wholeials* They Buy Bargains and they Sell Bargains. They hare the finest opportunities for buying and handling Shoes of any Howe in Sooth Carolina. They are the only house in upper Carolina having a man directly connected with the Manufacturers?their Mr. Jus. ?. Gossett being iht Agent and Salesman for the celebrated Bay State Shoe and Leather Co., of j'ew{York, one of the largest Boot and Shoe Manufacturing coneerns in the world. They are the only exclusive Shoe House in Andsrsou. Tfcey'are the only ONE PRICE HOUSE in Anderson. They have one of. the largest amd best assorted stocks of Shoes m^the State. They are carrying a full line of SOLE LEATHER?Hemlock and Whiteoak ?from ISo. per poaad up. A full line of Cat Half Soles from 10c. per pair up. Tbsir One Dollar Bargain Counter is a great suecess. Biggest Box Blacking In the World for Eic. THIS IS WORTH YOUR CONSIDERATION! IT is an acknowledged fact that A. G. MEANS carried the largest, finest and.best fitting Stock of Clothing, Shoes and Hat? in Andersoo. .. It is-a fact also that TAYLOR & CRAYTON bought tbat Stock for half its value, which places them in a position to sell you at New York Cost and still make a profit. Common sense teaches yon that " Merchants CANT sell goods without making a profit, and this talk about others selling goods as cheap as we are doing is ALL BOSH. Buy your Goods from as, and if wa oan't prove to you tbat we ARE selling you sit wholesale prices we will make yon a present of $50.00. We do net ask your patronage en account of frieodsbip, or as a favor TO US alone, out simply as a business traasacrion, KNOWING that it is to YOUR INTEREST as well as ours. Thanking you for your past patronage, . Very truly yours, TAYLOR & CRAYTON, 40 and 4,9 Granite Bow. OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OUR IDZWESS O-OOIDS AT COST FOR CASH, Including all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. The Cashmeres yen pay elsewhere 20c. for we will let you have at 15c The 2m. line at S0c? the 40e. line at 25c, and the 50c. line at 33Jc., the 75c. line for half a dollar, and the dollar line for 75c. Yob will save on a $.'5.40 Drtss Pattern 60 cent*, on $3.00 Pattern the same ?mount, bat the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4 80 you save $180, a* the $8.00 line yon save $2.00, on the $9.00 line you save $3.00 on $12 00 line yon save $4.00. Remember, this sale will be only for Thirty Days. 300 Bushels Seed Bye, 500 Bnshels Seed Barley, 1000 Bushels Seed Oats. New Crop Bine Grass, Orchard Grass, Red Top Grass, Clover Seed. FRESH STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Arriving: ovcry day at tho Lowest Prices for Cash. D. S. MAXWELL & SON, XO. ? 20?BL GE1QUOLA. J'OZHZIfcT T. ZBTTJRIRISS, Successor to Peoples & Burriss, still Headquarters for House MM Goods, Fancy China, Dinner Sets, Vases, Holiday Goods, &c. .HBcelebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE it muck impreved over the old pstinra. We havo a fiat Scov?, No. 7, for $10 00, with 25 pieces, as ornamental as an; 6rat class bnu^keeiisr need want. A big lot of Serosa Htnd Stoves mast go at ?Time price, so c>me 1? aud i>rice \*"m T1NWARK JL.O"W DOWiN ! Bring ynur BIOS, HIDES and BEESWAX to ua Those iqdebled to tho firm of Peoples & Burrits era respectfully invited fo etil I in ss sonn as possible sod settle their Account at the same old stand with JOHN T. BURRISS. Southern ProgiresSt The following table of asse3smon<s"for taxation 1850-1892 for the twelve So?thorn States will be interesting: Year Assessments. 1850.82,500,358,692 1880. 4,801,o70,6S1 1870. 2,578,193,113 1877. 1,926,120,018 1880.i. 2,164,155,795 1890. 3,774,584,625 1892. 4,258,820,422 It will be observed that the lowest point was reached in 1877, twelve yeare after the civil war ended, Bhowing that it took twelve years for the people to partially so adjust themselves to the new condi? tions imposed by the war's results, as to stop deterioration of values and start toward recovery of lost ground. The seotion?omitting the value of slaves In 1860?is now far ahead of its position in the year last named. Since 1850, the per capita wealth of the Sonth has increased by 5148.85. and now stands at $220.16. The value of products in tho section 1830-1892, is given below: 1892. 18S0. AgricnlturaU...8l,00*,472,500 8611,655,145 Manufactures.... 648,427,000 315,934,794 Forest products. 30,202,000 11,736,218 Minerals. 60,242,260 7,143,780 Fisheries. 9,216,500 3,728,000 Total........81,751,380,260 $950,281,887 Manufactured products have more than doubled in value in twelve years; min? eral products doubled eight times; forest products nearly three times; fisheries nearly three times. The aggregate has almost doubled. Agricultural product BbowB least favorably, because the inter? est has, by overdoing cotton, reduced the income from that crop abnormally. Still the growth Is far beyond that of any other part of the world since 1880, with perhaps an exception in fiivor of a small group of the new States of the North weBt. In regard to the ro-adjustment of the South to the conditions of economy forced upon her planters by over-production of ootton ana the effect of real estate booms, the Chattanooga Ti'adesman says: "It would be a grave error to assume that the overdoing of cotton has been wholly damaging. It would be an equally grave mistake to say that upon the whole the result has been anything bnt highly beneficial. The Southern fdanter had. gone on in the one old rut so ong that nothing short of a hard jolt would help him out of it. He had gradu? ally advanced the crop from 5,000,000 bales of 440 pounds in 1880 to 9,250,000 bales ol 581 pounds in 1892, without tak? ing the least account of the growing com? petition of India and Egypt. He had nursed the delusion that not only was cotton King, but that American cotton was the King of commerce. He had got ? ten to think that Southern land could not be made to yield its owners a living in any other way'than by cropping it to cotton perpetually. His indifference to if not his prejudice against diversification of crops had. become chronic. Nothing short of a universal loss through over? production was sufficient to teach the planter his limitations, and that has been taught him twice, two years in succes? sion he has barely, as an entirety got his money back on his staple. The result is more corn, irrass, potatoes, rice and other food and feed crops have been raised by 33 per cent, than in any year of the South's history, bringing a feeling of independence to the whole planting clans never before felt. An especial advance has been made in the produotion of rice. Louisiana this year will harvest more rioe than the whole Atlantic seaboard, and get good rates for her grain. Great increase is seen in the number of hogs in the black belt, from which will be obtained much of the meat needed, and it will be fattened on homo gro <vn corn. In a word necessity has foroed diversifi? cation; and not the least of the benefits of it will be in turning attention to fruit, crops, pears, peaches, etc. Disaster has done for tb 3 South in two years what fifty years of theorizing and warning failed to do. As for the boom enterpris? es, they will finally prove immensely beneficial to tbe Southern coal and iron belt. The immediate investors will lose money on the Lest located and managed of theBe enterprises ; but the plants they have built are there for use in the future. Many of these are just what the section needed to diversify our mechanical in? dustries?heavy hardware shops, steel plants, rolling mills of tho.more modern style, agricultural implement factories und the like. All, or nearly all these will noon be available, and their operation will in a short time mark a distinct and permanent -5top forward. A Bow la the Tabernacle. London, October 31.?The Rev. Dr. Pierson, of Philadelphia, presided over an uproarious prayer meeting at Spu r geon's Tabernaole this evening. This was Dr. Pierson's first appearance in his pastoral capaoity since his return from the States and at first there was every prospect that he would be eordially re? ceived. Numerous church officials shook hands with him before the services began, and when he stepped forward to open the meeting many worshippers applauded him. There were slight symptoms of dissent from the rear of the room, how? ever, to indicate that the partisans of James Spurgeon and Thomas Spurgeon had not left the meeting entirely in the hands of the Piersonites. While Dr. Pierson read the Bible and prayed all was quiet, but no sooner was the hymn after the Scriptural readings finished than an adherent of Thomas Spurgeon rose and called out: "Dr. Pierson, like many other mem? bers I would like to know whether you are a believer in baptism by immer? sion?" A woman next to tbe questioner, and evidently his wife, tried to pull him down to his seat, but he atood bis ground and waited for Dr. Pierson's answer. Dr. Pierson's questioner raised his yoice, and began to repeat bis inquiry. Men in all parts of tho room shouted protests against his conduct, and those near him endeavored to pacify him. In the confusion a woman stepped out into the aisle, and in shrill tones begged tho malcontent to withdraw his inquiry and lot the meeting proceed. This proposal was rooeived witli the approval of everybody oxcopt a small body of Spurgeonitos. By this lime the questioner had shaken off his wife and several other advisers who had interrupt? ed him, and he again called for Dr. Pier? son's conviotions as to immersion. Dr. Pierson had no opportunity to answer, however, for an uproar followed immediately. Twenty or thirty men hastened to the questioner's seat amid cries of "Put him out" "Leave the meet? ing." "You are no Christian," etc. Several men who had started to eject the immersionist ordered him out of the building. He answered that he had as good a right to remain as any member and he was ready to defend it. Two men seized him by the arms and half a dozen more pushed and pulled until they got him into the aisle. There the immersionist made a stand, braced himself and partially freed himself with a violent struggle, in which two mem? bers were thrown on their knees and three seats were upset. The Spurgeonites shouted "Shame," and one of them, a middle-aged woman, caught an antagonist of tbe immersionist by the arm, and soreamed at him : "Are yon a Christian ? Do you know how dreadful it is for Christiaus to behave like this?" During the last struggle the iramersion ist lost his wind, and ho was unable longer to obey the exhortations of bis friends that he should stick to his rights. He was shoved down t'.e aisle, thrust out, and tho door was closed behind him. Many women wore sobbing hysterically when the struggle was ended, and some time passed before perfeot quiet was restored. Dr. Pierson, who was flushed and ner? vous while the immersioniut was being ejected, recovered his self-possession quickly and began sn address concerning bis pluns for the next ten months. He said that he "meant to make hot work for the devil in the Tabernacle this win? ter." ? A queer divorce suit was recently pending in Tiflis. It came out in tho tostimony that Olga, a beautiful and well oducatod girl, had died, and thf.t her mother, in order to marry off another, but an illegitimate daughter had used the deceased Olga's baptismal certificate and represented the other daughter to be Ol? ga. Tho plaintiff does not bring any charge against his wife's character, but asks for a divorce on the ground that the 1 woman's mother secured him for a son I in-law under fal?o preteuecs. BILL A BP. Ar,) Writes About What He Baw la Sao Antonio. Aflcvnia OonttUuUon. There is no town on the continent that ia bo quaint, bo antique, bo carious as San Antonio. Its tropical parts and plszas, its narrow streets, its evergreens and flowers, its clean easy cottage homes and stately mansions all mixed up in neigh? borly proximity, its public buildings of pearly stone that are made to conform to tbe old Spanish style, with battlements and balconies aud turrets, and its mixed population of all colors aud many lan? guages, cauae a stringer to feol like he has crossed the Rubicon aud gotten into another coautry?and he has. Of course it is ia Texas, bat Texas is a free aud independent State with Imperiums and imperious everywhere you go. Io Tyler you can't buy & cigar out of the hotel ahos-csjio on Sauday, but in San An? tonio you csu buy anything you want in tbe stores and saloons, for they are all open and Sunday is no more than any other day, except that there is more frolic aud more beer, more whiskey, more shows, more badger fights, more attrac? tion) la the suburbs, than any other day. There are enough people to fill the churches bet theyars a small proportien of the population. The Germeai and Mexicsaa and aegroes predominate end tbey do as I hey please. They are not reckless or devilish or malicious, nor does it take many policemen to regulate the city?cot as masy as it does ia Atlanta in proportioa to the population, but the general ideA is to do as you please pre* vided you don't impose on anyone else. There is an old English maxim that sayb "custom makes law," aud so these Ger? man?! are just doing as their fathers have done for generations. They are thrifty, frugal, industrious, peaceable people aud are not conscious of doing anything wrong in tbe way they observe the Sab? bath. The Mexicans are a lower order of civilized humanity, but they rank with the negroes or laborers and citizens, ex? cept that they are poor cooks, poor wait era in the hotels and poor cotton pick? ers. It is hard to draw the color line between so many colors. It is hard on tbe railroads to have to provide sepi ate first class cars for the negroes when *? few of them travel except on excu. us. I have seen a beautiful chair-seated ^ar occupied by one negro woman for one hundred aud fifty miles while we white folks were crowded for room in another. But such is the law. The climatw of San Antonio is just like balmy spring. I don't wonder that tbe hotels are fall of Northern people. That is right. Let them come and spend their money and mix op with us. Whenever you see a Northern man move South and invest some money, you may bet that he ia a clever man, a fair man. He is neither a fool nor a fanatic, nor has he a bitter prejudice against our people. Such men are always welcome. I wont from San Antonio to Beeville, a lovely little town away down near Corpus Christi?just think what a name ---"the body of ChriBt." Bee County was named for General Barnard E. Bee, who was killed at th first; battle of Man* naisas. This region is called the France of America, and it ie fill'ng up with peo? ple who grow fruits and vegetables. I rode out to see some of the beautiful gardens. They do not seem to have any Beasonji but they plant and gather all the year rouad. I saw corn that was silking and ?[uashes that were blooming and the gudeaera were a till patting seed in the ground. Sau Antonio is the great market for all this country and it is growing rapidly. It is already the largest oity ia Texas. It has bseo called the wicked city, but I did not see any signs of it except the desecration of the Sabbath. Maybe Sam Jones has reformed it for a time and I saw it at Its best. Sam is the town talk and it is certain that he captured all the thinking people, including preachers, and editors, and lawyers and doctors. Oa Sunday I went to the Episcopal church with a friend who lives there and the venerable minister, Mr. Richardson, took for his text, "What went ye out for to see, a reed shaken by the wind?" After he had explained the text and the context ho suddenly aroused and surpris? ed his congregation by comparing Sam Jones to John the Baptist, and he drew the parallel at great length. He said "we Episcopalians do not like Sam Jones's methods nor his eccentricities, for they are utterly at variance with all our traditions, but he comes like John the Baptist cams, aud he calls the people to repentence for many long years. I have been preaching to you, but I coatees my inability to draw the outside sou is who are perishing for the light. My prejudices against Sam Jones have all been dissipated and I thank the Lord for raising up such a wonderful man." He said a {;re&t deal more in his praise, and it astonished me, for we all know tbat the Episcopalians are the last to yield one jot or one title of their time honored and stately forma of church worship. The contrast between Sam Jones's simp la forms and those of this service that. I heard and saw was striking, for hart, were twenty little boys in gown and sur plice, singing and chanting the ritual and sometimes tbey were front-face, aad sometimes right-face, and at tbe close of tbe service their leader took up the staff with its silver crucifix and they all fol? lowed him down tbe aisle singing and then back again to the chancel. I never saw tbat done before, but it was pretty and very impressive. They have uo ladies iu the choir. They have boys only, sod when I asked my companion why, she smiled and said, "lady Bingen iu a choir always quarrel." I knew they did in our town but I didn't know it w?a a general thing. 1 had rather hear them though thsn boys and they don't quar. rel while they are singing. Every little while the preacher would 1 Bay 'and what went ye out for to sea?' Most of tbe people went out from curios? ity, but Sam Jones, like John the Bap? tist, soon arrested their attention and pro? voked their self-examination, and it was a wonderful sight to see?over a thousand ungodly men going up to bim at the close of the service and with t<iara, prom iBing him to lead better lives. Such scenes are not witnessed at the churches and my deep concern is bow many of tbia congregation are going to lead better lives. How much good is this chnrcb to get oat of tbis great upheaving that Sam Jones has brought to Ban Antonio ?" I have recently visited some of the most beautiful towns In Texas. Ban Marcos, with its great silver springs and its Chatauqua heights, is just lovely. Be is Burnett that is nestled away up among (be granite h?ls, and so is Cameron, 'vith her new $80,000 court house and her public school building that cost $40,000 more. I found good friends everywhere and veterans?veterans who marched through Georgia to Joe John? ston's command of "fire and fall back" and they love to talk about it. Most of them are getting grey but they love tbe memories that cluster around that glori? ous retreat?a retreat that Joe Johnston siys In his book resulted in more Federal dead than be had soldiers in his army. And yet they keep on bragging. I found my old Boman friend, Oaptain McCord, at Cameron and was the guest of his happy family. The Oaptain is operating the finest cotton seed oil mill I ever saw, but he found time to gather up some of the Georgia veterans and we had a lov Iricr time. Mrs. McCord says she is sat? isfied sow buk it took her several years to get weaned from Georgia. While telling yarns about the war the Captain told about a one leg rebel com? ing across an Irishman directly after the war?an Irishman who bad been shot all to pieces at the battle of Franklin and was left for dead by the Federal surgeons and placed in a farm house to take his chances. But he didn't die. He got well, what there was left of him, and was at the depot asking charity so that he could get back up North and put in for a pension. The one legged rebel su r vey?d bim from bead to foot and hopped round him on his crutch until he was satisfied. The poor fellow had lost his left leg and his right arm and hia left eye and the bridge of the nose?all from a rebel shell, he aaid at Franklin?"That's where I last my leg," said the rebel, and ho slowly put his band away down in a pesket in his undershitt and drew out a five dollar bill that seemed to be all he bad. He gave it to the Irishman and remarked, "take this, my friend, and welcome. You are the first yaakee sol? dier I over saw who was trimmed up to suit mo," aad he hobbled away on his crutch. Bill Aep. Seeking for Buried Millions. Kansas City, Mo., November 6.? There U a vast deal of excitement across the State line in Wyandotte just now over a search that is being made for a $3,000,000 treasure of gold and jewels that was hidden by tbe famous Quantrel gang years ago. The search is continu? ing night aad day in the McAlpine ad? dition to Kansas City, Kas, and several town lots have already been torn up by tbe diggers. Aa armed guard of men, some of them manked, is kept about tbe place, and no one is allowed on the ground under pen* ally of being arrested for trespass. To? night two other mauked men, whom the detectives suspect of being members of the old Quantroll gang, attempted to as? sassinate oue of the guards. Years before the war a gang irfdejjptT adoea infested eastern Kansas, and every traveller stood a chance of being relieved of bis earnings of gold dust upon reach? ing the border. One of the victims of this gamg, whose name is unknown, made a plat of the ground where the treasure was buried, and a month ago he induced S. N. Simpson, J. D. Wyatt, W. B. j Bloan and N. M. Purvlnance to organize a company and work for the money that be knows to be buried. To-nighl, as Mr. Bloan was watching tbe work under an electric light, he was fired upon by two mounted masked men. He ran behind a tree and returned the fire, while his guards began to pour hot shot after the then fleeing assailants. Thus far no sign of the buried wealth has bsou discovered.?Chicago News. Bnnanua Feel on tbe Sidewalk. Tho atroot car had passed, but to catch it he reckoned, So bo ran like a deer, and shouted and bockonod, Till ho planted his heel On a smooth bit of poel? Then he saw half a million of stars in a second. He was in too gceat a hurry; better have waited for another car. There are cases, however, where haste Is necessary. If ycu have night sweats, foveriahneaa, woak, sore lungs and a hacking cough, do not lose an hour in obtaining a supply of Dr. Plerce's Golden Medical Discove? ry. Delay in such cases is dangerous: ii may be fatal. Before tbe disease has made loo great progress, tho "Golden Medicil Discovery" is a certain cure. In fact, it's guaranteed to benefit or cure or money paid for it promptly refunded. ? In about ono hundred of the syna? gogues in this country Sunday mootings are now hold, at which lectures are do livorod by tho rabbis who had conducted the rogular Jowieh sorviso on tho pre? vious day. "Did you see a boy about my size round the corner?" a boy inquired of an eldorly gentleman who was passing. "Yes, I believe I did," said the mnn. "Did bo look ugly?" "I didn't notice." "Did he look scared ?" "I don't know. Why?" "Why, I heard he was round there, and I don't know whether he wants to lick me, or whether he's afraid I'm going to lick him. Wish I did." ? A contentious church member in a Western town recently attempted to have his pastor disciplined for using the slang phrase "not in it" in the pulpit. But tho bottom dropped out of his chargo whon tbo clergyman produced tho man? uscript of bis sermon and read this sen? tence from it: "Ina word, my Christ? ian hearers, the ark was a miniature world ; there was no form of lifo that was not in it." ? A report from tho minister residont and consul gonoral to Liberia, recently reooivod, speaks vory highly of the pros poots of tho negroes who havo recontly emigrated thither from tho United States. A liberal pioco of land is allotted to each immigrant, and thoy are cared for by tho colonization sooioty for six months, by wh.. i timo it is oxpoctoil that they will havo raisod enough to bo sslf-supporting. A few of tho negroes finding that thoy con Id not got rich at once, and woro oxpoctod to work for their living, woro disappointed and ro turned to tho Unitod States. Tho rest aro satisfied, and havo turned their at? tention to planting onftbe, which in a fow years will yield thorn a flno Income. Ono man who went out a few months ago now has a good houso built and five thousand young coffoo trees. STOMES THEY TELL. Ballroad Engineers Bocome Reminiscent and Talk, Atlanta Constitution. If tbe average railroad! engineer were to write a book of bia experience it would be fnlljfrom cover to cover wi th thrilling narrations, none of which would be over? drawn. The exigencies of an engineer's calling involves thrilling adventures, narrow escapes, close.calls, and danger in ite worst form. He leads a charmed life, certainly, facing as he does, death every day, aud yet living to tell the story. But the danger of an engineer's life ia outweighed by the fascination it has for him. There is a fascination, an exhila? ration about the rustling locomotive tbat makes the engineer forgetful of his dan? ger. In the mad intoxication of farm fields, neat painted farm houses, pretty groves, babbling brooks, little villages, all glid? ing by, like the continuation of a kalei? doscopic picture the engineer lose* sight of the fact that death lurks along the rail. It's a fascination that ends only with death. It's stronger with the old veterans than with the younger engin? eers. When an engineer gets so old he can no longer go out oo tbe road, his old love still strong within him, he hangs around the depot and watches the loco? motives come pulliig in, with a Badly reminiscent look iu his dim eyes. An engineer loves hie engine like he loves his wife and babes. He always as* sociates the two together in his affections. In writing about an accident iu which aome brave engineer has lost his life the newspaper reporters always draw a pic? ture of the engineer sitting at his throt? tle, watching tbe track before him, while soft light plays ou his features. His face wears a tender look. He ia thinking of bia wife aud babies. When suddenly? but you know tho rest. It'a a pretty picture .hough, aud is nearly always true to life. If an engineer ia thinking of his wile and little ones, he's thinking of his sweetheart. There yet live in Atlanta some of the pioneer engineers, who guided the first locomotives that ever swept through the Stats. They can tell rare stories of ad? venture on the rail, and many of them will make your kair stand on end. And their younger brothers, too, have had many lively adventures. Thoy can spin yarns by the yard, aud not a lino of them is dull or uointereat ing. Bill Love is an old Atlanta boy, and an engineer of many years' experience. Mr. Love ia perhaps the beat known en? gineer In tbe South, owing to his promi? nence iu brotherhood matters. For the past year he hasn't been active on the road, but ia general foreman of the Cen? tral and tbe Atlanta and West Point roads. When asked as to tbe hair-breadth es? capes through which he bad paaaed, said thai while he had many accidents the one most to be remembered was when he was engineer In 1883, ou the East Ten* nessse, Virginia and Georgia, betwseu Macon sad Rome. He says ha wan coming down on No. 48 one night, making a fast run for No. 49, with whom he had a meeting point at Powder Springs. When ho left Dallas there was just sixteen miuutes in which to get therein and clear No. 49, and the distance was thir? teen and a half miles. But trmtiug to Providence and his engine iu whom he had all confidence started to make the run. When rounding a curve three miles this side of Dallas my headlight shown on the rod lights of a freight; caboose standing on the main line. The freight wan running to Amtell to meet No. 49 and broken down and thinking only of that train, which had the right of way, had failed to send back a flag to Btop me. When I saw the caboose I was not a hundred yards from them and running fifty miles an hour, but as good luck would have it the caboose was one of those coaches the Western and Atlantic had built for the exposition, and the old 57 first waltzed through her like an egg shell and into the next car tbat was loaded with sack flour. Juat before bitting tbe caboose I had reversed aud plugged her aud she went in a spinning, and when we got her out she looked like it had been snowing on her for a week, She was so covered with flour. You talk about your Diarya, but I didn't need one for a gontle reminder, for I thought of everything I had ever done in ray life. Did I jump off? Well, no, I did that heroic act you newspaper reporters credit in with and .tuck to my post. Revsrsed my engine and put on the air brakes, and saved the lives ef the passengers. All because I didn't have time to jump or I expect I won'd have done tho leap frog act. This heroic butiaeos souads vary nice in the papers, but ita ao fua to read about what you know that you have to act when you baven't a second to think what is best to do in the premises, and if a man jumps off and suvea hiimolf he is a coward, aud if he stays on and gets killed he it a baro, and in the short space of time iu which we have to &ct iu hard to tell which you want to bo, a dead hero or a live coward. There are mauv ups and dowus iu an engineer's life, continued Mr. Lovo, and I bare had seine ludicrous tcaroa, one or two of which I call to mind. I came up one night from Montgomery to Colum? bus on a fast through freight on which we made the round trip in tho night. I wrsu't married tbeu and of course like all single enginoera had a girl at each end of the road. I stopped at Mt. Meig*, a flag static a twelve miles this aide of Montgomery, and asked a section hand to gather me some poud liilios for a lady friend of mine and bavo ?iem for me when I cams back in the morning. Be? tween Mt. Meigs and Shorten there are a great many treaties and jnst bo/ore clay oa my return just about half way be? tween the tvo stations I was running along about thirty miles an hour resting my eyes when suddenly my fireman cried out look out "bridge burning up." I looked ahead and there- was a big fire burning in the middle of tho track and a man with a torch waving violently in oach hand. I immediately reversed my engine, opened my Baud pipes and did everything to atop und I got ou one etep and tbe fireman on the other ready to jump off when she plunged into tbe burn* j ing bridge. I passed tbe man who was waiving with all bis eight for m&'to stop and asked for God's 9 ike tell me what wsb the matter. His ranW was: "Bom here's dem pond lillies yon wanted." He had built a large fire on a pile of the gravel in the middle of the track at tbe end of a long trestle and was waiting for me to come. You can just imagine my feelings 0: relief and disgust at tbe same time. Since then I have swore off on pond lillies and Alabama girls and married and settled down to life in tbe shops, instead of the rail. the light that failed. In a lifetime of service on the rail reaching back to years previous to tbe war Joseph B. Travis, the veteran engin? eer, has a story of thrilMng experiences that would fill a volume in themselves. Now be has grown gray in tbe service and has lost tbe Impetuosity and fire of his younger days, be lives to tell the sto? ries of the rail that abound in exciting situations and that make tbe blood tingle while they are being told. Mr. Travis is a scholarly 8&d refined engineer. He went on tbe road when it was as big a thing to be a railroad engineer as to be a Congressman, because engineers were rarer, and be yet carries himself with tbe dignity of bis former years. He walks as straight as an Indian, and as pertly as a school boy. He begau life on tbe rail on tbe Uli* nois Central road nearly forty years ago. He came South a few years afterwards and tbe opening of tbe war found him on the Western and Atlantic road. He en? tered the service of the army and was afterwards detailed to work as an engin? eer. In this capacity much important work devolved upon and many lively ex? periences befell him. He bad to en? counter many heavy obstacles at times, but Joe Travis was known as the nervy engineer, and bis superior officers always reposed tbe utmost confidence in him. "Ye3," said Uncle Joe the other day as he stood among a group of engineers around the union depot, "I had many shaky expsriences during the war. I re? member some that were especially thrill? ing. But I don't call to mind any that parallel* the experienee I had at King? ston just after the war, when I saw the streak of light in tbe dark. "SavedJ by Providence?that's what I call it, for I don't know what else it could have been. "One night I pulled a passenger train out of A'lanta with tbe old 'Missouri.' Billy ^.aeards, who was afterwards blown up on this engine, was just ahead of me with a freight. I was to pass him somewhere above Cartsrsville?be was to sidetrack for me. "I skimmed into Cartersville a little late. I ran up to tbe tank to get water, and when I pulled out I bad no timo to lose. I let tbe 'Missouri' have a full head of steam und she danced along like a two year eld. Through cuts, over em? bankments, past corn fields, then into the shadow of tbe woods we rushed like something pursued. I kept my hand on the valve and looked straight ahead. Egyptiaa darkness was walled up in front of us, and on evary side. "Suddenly, as I watched, I fancied I saw a dim light ahead. It seamed to rise a few feet, drop and go out. It was so dim that I wss doubtful whether it was a light or not. It flashed no more. "Something?it mutt have been God said 'Slop!' A strange sort of feeling came over ma, and I shut off the steam. "It was lucky that I did, for ten feet In front of my engine, when she stopped stood a freight train on tbe track. A train-band bad waved a match on tbe track to stop me. Oace in a thousand times I wouldn't have stopped for it, but that small voice told me to aad I stop? ped. I never think of it except I shud? der." hi8 engine blew up. Tbe fascination that there is about life on a locomotive bos held A. A. Hancock, one of tbe veterans, in one position for thirty-eight years. Thirty-sight yeave ago be began running an engine in tbe Central yards here and has been running sisce continually, without a break, ex? cept that caused by the war. Every day he can be found at bis post on "604" shifting cars in tbe Central yards. In bis service many narrow escapes from death have been made by him, even though be has never bad any expe? rience on the main line. "I guess I had about as bad an acci? dent, and about as narrow an escape as any engineer ever had even though I have never run out of this yard," said Mr. Hancock, as be leantd upon his lever in a reflective, reminiscent way. "Ono morning about sixteen years ago my eagias was standing et the east end of tbe Ceatral freight depot, booked to some csra. The signal to start bad just been given, and the ball was clanging, wheu ? "A thousand cannons couldn't have made a uoisisr explosion, a&d it seemed as if the whole enrlb had broken loose, and was caving in. I landed several feet away ou the ground, and when I looked around to sen my engine it was not there. "Where it bad stood were a few frag? ments of wood, the tender and the wheels The boiler and entire front part of the machino wero gone. In five min? utes ten thousand people were on the spot, attracted by tbe explosion. Tbe noise was terrific and was heard for miles. "Tbe pieces of that engine were scat? tered for a half milo around. To this day tbe bell has never been found. Marvelous to say, the fireman and my? self escaped comparatively unhurt." Mr. Hancock had another boiler to explode with him iu the yards about eight je&rs ago. It was 154, kbouame engine which exploded near the White ball street crossing two months ago. the witche'a head. Seated on his pretty engine ready to start on his run, a handsome, athletic en [ gineer, with hair and mustache premiv j turely gray was found tbe other night. He was Charley Barrett, the Western I and Atlantic engineer, and he sat on 240, the protly locomotive that he has been running since 1887. The 240 was standing on tbe track opposite tbe Kim ball house, steaming and blowing ready to pull out for Chattanooga. Charley Barrett is as courteous on his engine as he would be iu a drawing room. It's his home almost, and he says, "I lore 240 next to the old lady and the children." Tbree times in his experience on the rail has Charley Barrett been where his life was only saved by a scratch. The other night just a few minutes be? fore 7.45 o'clock, when Engineer Bar? rett's train is scheduled to leave Atlanta he told his story sitting in his seat of tbe locomotive "Just shout & year ago," said he, "I was running on this same schedule, aud with this same engine. I left here one Sunday night on time, and went rushing out through the unusually quiet and sloepy city. As soon aa I got past tho city limits I let her go at a rattling good speed. "We were speeding along like the wind out near the six-mile post. I was resting my hand on the engineer's valve I as I alwajs do, and looking forward I saw nothing wroag ia front?the track wa.i clear. But with an awful sudden? ness I felt my engine aink down and go bumping over the ties. "I knew what was the matter?we were off the track?and the knowledge froze the blood in my veins, for I knew that going at the rate we were going something terrible was at hand. "I can't describe the feeling that came over me. In twenty seconds every act of my life passed in swift, kaleidoscopic views before me. There are no words in the English laaguage strong enough to describe that feeling. Just confront a man with death in an instant and imag? ine the rest. "I hadn't a half miaute to wait, but it seemed an age. All grew densely dark, I felt myself flying through tbe air, I kaew not where. I heard a crashing of timbers, tbe clashing of irons, tke shrieks of people and tke angry bi&a of escaping steam?a thousand horrors rushed upoi me. My senses swam about and then there was a blank. "When I came around my fireman stood over me trying to lift me from be* neath some timbers. I lay in a briar thicket, where I had beea thrown, thirty feet from tbe right of way. My engine bad been hurled around, and stood facing the track. The baggage sad mail oars were piled up on aa em? bankment. Tbe passenger coaches and sleepers I had saved by turaing on the brakes the instant the crash came. Tbat was a terrible experience, and I will sever forget it." Charley Barrett's hair, as the story goes, turned gray on the night of tbat awful experience. With a laugh he de* clares that it did have eemething to do with it. "But I think I have broken the witch's head now," said he, referring to a popular superst;tior> among engineers. "You know they aay if you havo three narrow escspes you've killed the witch, and you are safe ever afterwards." ED. VTATERHOUSE'S TERRIBLE RIDE. Ed. Waterbouse pulls a passenger train between Atlanta and Macon every day, aid is one of the best engineers on the road. This means, of course, that besides being efficient ou tbe engine, he never deserts his post iu time of danger. "I've had some mighty close calls," said he the other night as he oiled up his big eagine, the partner of "Nancy Hanks," preparatory for leaving on his run, "and I've beeu right in the jaws of death four or five times. I had a lively collision at Jonesboro two or three years ago. I collides! with my own train at Miller some yesra back, but the worst, tbe V6ry worst, I ever had was at Mc Fherson barracks one year ago last Jan? uary. "I left here on engiae 552 pulling the Macon train scheduled to leave here at 4.10 o'clock p. m. Conductor Ennis was in charge. No thought of an accident ever entered my mind. So well regula? ted is the management of tbe Central, and so thoroughly drilled are its employ* eea that accidents are rare. "Whea I rounded that curve just this side cf McPeraon I was moving along at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. When you get around that curve you have a full view of the depot and track at tbe fort, and as I swung around I saw to my horrow a freight train standing on the main line directly in front of me. "To stop was impossible. To jump meant death to myself and many of the passengers. The awful feeling that comes over engineers at auch times came over me, but I hadn't time to think. By the time I bad reversed my Bteam we were upon tbe train. Turning my back upon it I held firmly to my engine and waited for the clash. "I will lever attempt to deeoribe what happened. I coald no more do It than I could give the details of a cyclone's pas? sage. If the whole world had exploded it couldn't have affected me more. "Why I wasn't killed I don't know," aud tho engineer's voice grew tender. "It's one of the modern miracles. To have looked at tho terrible wrek after? wards one would have regarded it as im? possible that a man could have gone through it and lived. "I Ibuud myself lying on tho ruuning board of the engine, a narrow strip along? side tho boiler. The seat co which I had Bat lay two hundred feet from the track in the middle of the road facing toward Atlanta. The engine was torn up. The baggage car stood across the tender and the next car was piled upoa it. Heaped up all around were shattered romnants of the cars we had struck. Wreck, wreck everywhere. And marvelous to relate no one was killed. But several were hurt. I didn't make anot* run for eighteen months. For two weeks I didn't move." Aa Ed. Watcrhouac finished bia story the same Conductor, Enais, sang out "all aboard," and soou the engineer was onee more speeding toward Macon. Hundroda of such stories could be told. Such exciting experiences soou become one of its attractions. Those close calls quicken their blood, and firm believers in the philosophy "tbat death has its appointed time to come," what care they for the dangers that lurk around curve, on every trestle, over every steep embankment^ on every > foot of rails. All Sort! of Paragraphs. ? Thejtruth never dodges,*,no mattet who shoots. ? Faith is the engine that lore puls in motion. ? Love is never satisfied until it gets both arms full. ? If there; were no troubles to talk about some people would always be silent. . ? One of tbe Most foolish men is the one who worries about things ho can'i help. ? A Portland, Me., woman, who has t mania for canceled postage stamps, bai over a million of tbem. ? Every season brings a new crop el cough remedies, but they cannot compete with that grand, old Dr. Bull's. Cough Syrup. ? Tbe girl who marries for mone; usually has a look on her face after mar' riage that indicates that she is havinf. trouble in collecting her salary. ? The most tired people in the world are those who do not half work. There is plenty of scripture to show that on< way to get more rest is to do more work ? I suffered for two weeks with neu? ralgia, and Salvation Oil gave me im? mediate relief. Mrs. Wm. C. Bald, Mosher St., Balto., Md. ? The wealth of the Bussian State Church is almost incalcuable. It could pay tbe national debt, some $3,000,000, 000 aad more, and still be enormouslj wealthy. ? Wife: I am tbiningof taking swim ming lessons. What part do you think will be the hardest for me to learu. dear 1 Hue band: Well, I should think keeping your mouth shut. ? Gay Bachelor: Do you think then is anything in the theory that married men live longer than unmarried ones ! Henpecked friend (wearily): Oh, I don' know?seems longer. ? There is a chestnut tree in Mans? field, Conn., whose circumference at the roots is. 64 feet and tbe diameter of the spread of its branches in one direction ii a hundred feet. Its height is 80 feet. ? Tbe new Mormon temple at Salt Lake City will be opened April 6,1893, It has been in coarse of erection for 44 years, has cost $2,500,000, and will be, withoat doubt, tbe biggest architectural nightmare in the country. ? France possesses a capital in which it is said more murderers take place in six months than occur in London, Berlin and Vienna together in twice that length of time, but altogether more murders take place in the United States than in any other country. ? Of interest to ladies.?The scalp may be kept white and clean, and tbe hair soft, pliant, and glossy, by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. This preparation never fails to restore to faded aad gray hair its original color. Sold by druggist* and perfume?. ? It is no easy thing to dress harsh, coarse hair so as to make it lcok graceful or be com ing. By tbe use of Ayer;s Hair Vigor, this difficulty is removed, and tbe hair made to a*sume any style or arrange? ment that may be desired. Give tbe Vigor a trial. ? In tbe sub treasury in New Yorl city there is on deposit to-day more than $3,000,000 representing outstanding mon? ey order?, and of this amount more than $2,000,000 represent money orders which are over due, and which may nsver be presented for payment. ? Dallas?I hear that you proposed tc Miss Testy last night and got a refusal \ Callous?Well, as* to that, she didn't bluntly refuse me; she wouldn't wound my feeliage by doieg that, yet the Infer? ence of her remarks was plain enough" She said if I was tbe last man on.eartb sbe might consider it. ? A church journal lavs that tbe infidel sneeriagly remarks: "Two-thirds of tbe church members of this country are women." And the same journal casually meatman the fact that "out ol forty-five thousand convicts in the State prisons more than ferty-three thousand are men." Now where should tbe ineei be placed ? ? Close observers have noticed thai flies will gather upon a half-drunken, sleepy sot, while a dozen sober men in the same room are not molested by them, The flies will buzz around their subjeel with great delight, frequently aligbliuj upon bis perspiring face. Off they go and return sgain and again, quaffing the alcoholic nectar issuing from his pores After awhile their flight becomes uncer? tain and eccentric, and sometimes the] come in collision. Beceatly a drunker, man raised bis hand and brushed then from bis face. Some fell to the floor anc lay there paralyzed. After awhile the] get on their feet and wearily flew off hai dazed. Perhaps they have a head on Many aaimals yield to the seduction o rum drinkisg, especially elephants, hor? ses, cows and swine. Poultry, especially turkeys, tumble over in a leaden sleep lying around as if dead, aad utterly ignoring their occiutomei roots. Or. awakening tbey stagger for a few mo? ments and soon recover, but it is hoen before they renew their cheerful cacklink ? Colonol Gaylor, of fit. Louis, recent ly said to a reporter: "I fought a battle once with wooden cannons and woa it It was during tho Mexican war. I wa sent out from Santa Fe with a tcoutict party of twenty-four men, and we wen headed off near the Mexican line by 20< of tbe most villainous looking greascn that ever cut a throat or shot a brav? man iu the back. We got into a wcodei gorge and threw up a breastwork of loo;< rocks and earth across she mouth of it I felt sure tbe Mexicans would make : rush for us that night under cover of the darkness, und decided to fix up a surprise for them. We carried a small chest o tools with us, and in tbe outfit was i long stemmed 2-inch auger. We feile* six tough oak trees, sawed off a section o tbe stems and traasformed tbem ink cannon. We loaded tbem with pisto ball and flint .jravol, mounted thesa am waited. Just before daylight tbe Mexi? cans c&iue. We waited until tbey wer in fifty yards, then opoced on tbem witi our battery. You never saw such a bust ling for tall timber in your lite. Artil lery wss tbe l*st thing they expected t encounter, and when those wooden can non opened on tbem they scattered lik sheep."